If those missions go well, astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover will fly the first operational Crew Dragon flight to the International Space Station, while astronauts Sunita Williams and Josh Cassada will fly the first operational CST-100 Starliner mission. The endeavour will return astronaut launches to U.S. soil for the first time since the country retired its aging space shuttles in 2011.

In an interview, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine compared the crews to the Mercury astronauts, the seven test pilots featured in "The Right Stuff", who flew at the dawn of the Space Age.

In 2014, Boeing and SpaceX were awarded a combined $6.8 billion in contracts from NASA to develop spacecraft capable of flying crews to the station, the orbiting laboratory.

Boeing has leased two of NASA's old space shuttle hangars at KSC, known as Orbiter Processing Facilities, to build its Starliners and house two small robotic X-37B space planes it built for the Air Force.

SpaceX's first crew tests will be manned by shuttle veterans Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley. Bob Behnken of the Air Force and Doug Hurley, a retired Marine Corps colonel.

While NASA didn't require uncrewed flight tests, both companies will be shooting them off to the ISS anyway, because you can never be too positive things won't glitch once you're 1,200 miles beyond Earth's atmosphere.

The Crew Dragon capsule is scheduled to launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket from the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida in late 2019.

Countries have been launching their astronauts from Russia for a long while now, as the Russian Soyuz is currently the only spacecraft that can send astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). Dr Deepak Pandya, her father, said that she would start training for the 2019-20 mission. "I'll tell you, being able to launch to the International Space Station from US soil, I can't imagine better", Cassada said. A NASA press release says more crew members may be added to those flights later. He is a Navy commander and test pilot with more than 3,500 flight hours in more than 40 aircraft. Boeing said only that it would fly NASA's astronauts by the middle of next year.

SpaceX is shooting for a test flight without passengers in November and a crew flight in April.

Williams has spent 322 days aboard the International Space Station since becoming an astronaut in 1998.

Both Boeing and SpaceX are also working with Bigelow Aerospace, a Las Vegas company that plans to launch private space stations into orbit, to be leased to nations or companies.

Victor Glover: Glover is a native of Pomona, California and he has three master's degrees. If any further delays creep up, NASA's astronauts may be temporarily stranded on Earth.

Michael Hopkins was born in Lebanon, Missouri, and grew up on a farm near Richland, Missouri.

"With the additional access to space, new industries will develop in the years ahead at an increasing rate", said Lissy Donald, managing director of Compass International - a UAE-based firm that is the regional partner of Nasa and the United States and Space Rocket Centre.

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The actress released a memoir in 2015 called " The Facts of My Life " in which she recounted the challenges faced by her family . Her cause of death has not been confirmed, but in 2017, she did reveal that she was suffering from pancreatic and bone cancer .

The meeting reportedly yielded three solution options and if nothing works, Queen Elizabeth might get involved too. But now sources claim that the royals have had enough and senior royal aides are trying to come up with a plan.

For more than a decade Seagal, who according to his own website is 66, has been a regular visitor to Russian Federation . The actor who is also a Russian citizen, confirmed the appointment on his Instagram page on Monday.

Sources say the fetus, believed to be 5 months along, was found in a bathroom aboard American Airlines flight 1942 around 6 a.m. American Airlines has confirmed an investigation is underway, and released the following statement.

In Lisbon, the temperature hit a record 44˚C on Saturday, nearly emptying the city streets normally teeming with tourists. Tourists cool off at a fountain during the heatwave at the Virgin Square in Valencia, Spain, August 3, 2018.

There were a total of 25 reported human cases in 2017, according to the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare's website . One hundred thirty four human cases of WNV, including three fatalities, have been diagnosed in CT residents since 2000.

That effort included sifting through data from her cellphone, social media accounts and a Fitbit, a physical activity tracker. The Kearney, Missouri, police department said on Wednesday that they responded to the possible sighting on July 26.

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